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heat haze

heat haze noun: a shimmering atmospheric disturbance caused by currents of warm air between the observer and the object observed.

Noun

heat haze (plural heat hazes)

  1. A shimmering atmospheric disturbance caused by currents of warm air between the observer and the object observed.
    • Under increase of heat, it volatilizes faster, so as to become dimly visible in large mass, as a heat-haze.1860, John Ruskin, chapter 1, in Modern Painters […], volume V, London: Smith, Elder and Co., […], →OCLC, part VII (Of Cloud Beauty), § 7, page 110
    • He lit his first cigarette, a Balkan and Turkish mixture made for him by Morlands of Grosvenor Street, and watched the small Waves lick the long seashore and the fishing-fleet from Dieppe string out towards the June heat-haze followed by a paper-chase of herring-gulls.1953, Ian Fleming, “L’Ennemi Écoute”, in Casino Royale, London: Pan Books, published 1955, page 28

Forms of heat haze

pluralheat hazes
alternative form (rare)heathaze

Questions about heat haze

What does heat haze mean?
Heat haze means a shimmering atmospheric disturbance caused by currents of warm air between the observer and the object observed.
What part of speech is heat haze?
Heat haze is a noun.
What is the plural of heat haze?
The plural of heat haze is heat hazes.

Words near heat haze in the dictionary

  1. heat exchangers
  2. heat exchanges
  3. heat exhaustion
  4. heat gun
  5. heat guns
  6. heat haze
  7. heat hazes
  8. heat index
  9. heat indexes
  10. heat indices
  11. heat intolerance

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